A blogsite offering 30 entertaining oddities each month since January 2020. We are currently approaching 1800 posts in these five years. Images -- poetic (including song-lyrics), photographic, and computer-simulated -- are drawn from daily life as well as from poems and wordplay grouped by topic on our parent blog "Edifying Nonsense". The poetry displayed is all original (as are the song-lyrics), although portions evolved through rigorous editing on a collaborative website.
July 30, 2020
JUL 30, Toronto ravines: Cedarvale Ravine
July 29, 2020
JUL 29, anagram swarm: A-VERY-STABLE-GENIUS, #15
July 28, 2020
JUL 28, insects: insect repellents (DEET)
July 27, 2020
JUL 27, anagram swarm: A-VERY-STABLE-GENIUS, #14
July 26, 2020
JUL 26, magical canal palindromes: more far-flung venues
July 25, 2020
JUL 25, anagram swarm: A-VERY-STABLE-GENIUS, #13
July 24, 2020
JUL 24, Ontario nostalgia: Toronto ravines (poem)
July 23, 2020
JUL 23, anagram swarm: A-VERY-STABLE-GENIUS, #12
Bonus wordplay concoction:
July 22, 2020
JUL 22, at heart: myocardial ischemia
Authors' Note: There is variability in patients' response to the development of blockages in the coronary arteries. Part of this is due to the gradual development of collateral arteries or side branches, which may mitigate the effect of the obstructions to produce chronic symptoms or acute severe damage to heart muscle. The net impact on flow can be assessed through imaging showing blood flow to heart muscle at rest and stress, with nuclear or other studies of myocardial perfusion (‘gated SPECT’).
July 21, 2020
JUL 21, anagram swarm: A-VERY-STABLE-GENIUS, #11
Bonus wordplay concoction:
July 20, 2020
JUL 20, singable satire: Tom Lehrer sings "ALLITERATIVE BINOMIALS #1"
PARODY SONG-LYRICS
There’s form and function, farm and factory, and fling and flirta-ation
July 19, 2020
JUL 19, anagram swarm: A-VERY-STABLE-GENIUS, #9/#10
July 18, 2020
JUL 18, waterfowl: pelicatessen
Editor's Note re 'The Pelicatessen': After initially using this neologism (word-creation) as a descriptor on the blog "Edifying Nonsense", and misconstruing it as his personal invention, the author became aware, via the internet, that there is a restaurant located at a resort on Bald Head Island, North Carolina with that name. Although that fact is of interest, it is of limited relevance. Seabirds are apparently not served at the establishment, either as customers, or as menu-fare.
July 17, 2020
JUL 17, poets' corner: inventiveness (palinku, a novel poetic form based on the 'haiku')
Authors' Note: The palinku is a recently invented poetic form. Able to boast a length of only three lines, it has like the haiku, its source of inspiration, a demand for terseness, word compression and poignancy. But, moreover, each stanza of three lines must be composed only of words that are part of brief English palindromic words, phrases or short sentences. You can discover examples right here on this blog-site, published since September 2020 on the 17th of each month. With their short length, palinkus can accumulate quickly and there are now over 60 of them. Our original creations of this type are displayed on this blog starting August 2020. The most recent, dealing with the American political situation, can be found HERE. Enjoy!
July 16, 2020
JUL 16, bottom line of medical humor: anal fissure
July 15, 2020
JUL 15, wordplay maps: sister-cities anagrams (28-30)
July 14, 2020
JUL 14, savoir-faire: pied-à-terre
July 13, 2020
JUL 13, political palindromes, KKK
From this point, you can proceed either forwards or backwards.
For FORWARD, proceed to the next set of 'POLITICAL PALINDROMES' on July 18.
For BACKWARD, return to the previous set on July 12.
OR, return to the ORIGINAL POST on this topic.
July 12, 2020
JUL 12, political palindromes, JJJ
From this point, you can proceed, ditheringly, either forwards or backwards.
For FORWARD, proceed to the next set of 'POLITICAL PALINDROMES' on July 13.
For BACKWARD, return to the previous set on July 10.
OR, return to the ORIGINAL POST on this topic on May 17.